Well actually the Forth Bridge. We stayed at South Queensferry for two nights …
I enjoyed taking the shots of the bikers who must use the car park as a regular Sunday meeting place. The stitched panorama of the three Forth bridges came out reasonably well, even though the light was not brilliant.
Heading north we had a couple of nights booked into a hotel just west of Inverness. On the way we stopped briefly at Aviemore before visiting the battlefield and museum at Culloden which was very interesting and enhanced my knowledge and understanding of Anglo-Scottish history by quite a sizeable amount. It was the last battle fought on British soil and was actually between two families, not two nations – something I hadn’t appreciated before.
The main purpose of the stopover in Inverness was to visit The Black Isle where my Ross ancestors had come from. I didn’t want to visit graveyards, I just wanted to get a feel for the place, and I was not disappointed.
The journey west. We set off for the west coast via Dingwall and Bonar Bridge. Crossing to Ledbeg and Lochinver. From there we made our way down the coast staying at Ullapool, Gairloch and Kyle of Lochalsh before crossing to Skye.
We had booked a cottage near Portree for five nights – about the minimum you need to see just the north part of the island. I’d always wanted to visit Skye so it was fitting that we’d chosen this as a destination to mark our Golden Wedding Anniversary year. The weather was not bad – for Skye, and we managed to get a walk up towards The Cuillins and Fairy Pools, and also stretch our legs at The Quairaing – a really strange landscape to the north of the island beyond Uig.
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